Name details

Mount Avers

Avers, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mount Avers  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 122051

Feature type: Mountain (2a)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

Mountain 2 mi N of Mount Ferranto in the Fosdick Mountains, in Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. Discovered in December 1929 by the ByrdAE and named for Henry G. Avers, chief mathematician of the Division of Geodesy, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, who was a member of the National Geographic Society Commission of Experts which determined that Cdr. (later R. Admiral) Richard E. Byrd reached the North Pole by airplane (1926) and the South Pole (1929).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
76° 29' 00.0" S
-76.48333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
145° 21' 00.0" W
-145.35000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1947

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